The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-06-10

WHOLE NO. 935.

good before and was wondering why had
lost my appetite when l noticed woman,
looking as white as sheet, make break for
the side of the ship and hang her head over
for about five minutes.
Something's the matter with that lady,"
remarked to the man had been talking to,
"and you'd better tend to her, while run for
the doctor"
"Only little seasick, that's all, he said,
very cool, and then knowed what was COM
ing and tried to work on my imagination and
keep it off. hadn't seen Mandy for an hour,
and had clean forgot all about her, when the
chambernaid came up and told me my wife
wanted me down below. OF course / went,
and that going below got me. In two minutes
after had got into the stateroom, where /
found Mandy total wreck. was howl
ing Wilderness, and no congressional funeral
or other official festivity ever stirred up
my innards like | was stirred up for the
next hour. l have been out with the boys
u good many times in the national capital,
and have tumbled over corkscrew and
fell from grace more times than once, as
most OF us congressman has; but was never
so profoundly sick at the stommick as was
on that occasion.
In the morning felt rocky-a good deal
like did the day got back from the last
congressional funeral-but noticed the boat
was steadier, and felt like there was room
inside of me for about sack of flour and ham
of meat Mandy said she was feeling better,
too, and we got up and ct breakfast that
almost made us ashamed of ourselves. That
was the last of our seaSickness, for the bal
ance Of the trip was in fine weather; but what
we had learned me fully that mighty little
seasickness goes mighty long ways.
The rest of the voyage was about as unin-
teresting as the senate chamber is wien a
dull senator has got the floor, and we put i'll
the ten remaining days talking and reading
and walking the deck, waiting and wishing
for the land to come in sight. / talked some
politics down among the steerage passengers,
but when found they were going back to
Germany to live, l concluded that political
education wasn't what they were after. and
as they had no votes to pay their tuition with,
quit, and went back on the main deck.
**a
Tuesday morning, the thirteenth day out,
the steward came banging away at our door
and told US land was in sight, and Plymouth,
England, our stopping place, would soon be
than if the house had been on fire, and hur-
ried up on deck, and when looked at the
hills of good, hard, solid ground, am free to
confess that never saw so much beauty in
plain, ordinary, common dirt i'll the whole
course of my existence. / didn't keer whether
it was land on which a throne set or not;
',idn't keer whether it was an en,rire or XII, -.
dom or republic; it was land, and land, any
kind-of land, was what was waiting and
longing for The tears came to Mandy's
eyes as she looked and though we had made
many good friends on the ship, and every
body had been mighty clever to us, the land
was what we wanted, and we shook hands
all around, and with many auf wiedersehns
we got off ON the tender that came for us,
and left the Rh@tia probably forever.
didn't make a speech, but did ask the
captain of the tender to shut down the safety
valve and let her go for shore, if she ran ten
miles up hiA. He didn't do it, though, but
in due time put us off at the Plymouth dock,
and when we touched bottom we walked up
and down as proud as pair of colts in a
green pasture, and thanked the Lord that we
had been born land animals instead of fish.
Iii my next will tell you of Plymouth.
Yours truly, w. O. WAxEM.